Hi, I'm writing a little documentation and stumbled upon this option inside the Text menu that doesn't seem to do anything. The tool tip isn't much of help.
SVG text is continuously evolving, and not all renderers (programs/browsers that can display SVG content) support all text features. Convert to text will remove advanced text features to allow simple renderers to display the text. This is generally a one-way conversion... text that has been converted cannot be made into an advanced-feature type ( excepting undo).
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Hi, I'm writing a little documentation and stumbled upon this option inside the Text menu that doesn't seem to do anything. The tool tip isn't much of help.
So, what Convert to text does???
SVG text is continuously evolving, and not all renderers (programs/browsers that can display SVG content) support all text features. Convert to text will remove advanced text features to allow simple renderers to display the text. This is generally a one-way conversion... text that has been converted cannot be made into an advanced-feature type ( excepting undo).
https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/1.0#Overview_of_available_text_types
https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes/1.2#Text_Tool
So, the "result" is not visible, only on one of those renderers incapable of showing the special text, right?
Correct.